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Earthquakes & St. Louis Region
4:38 pm
Fri February 11, 2011

Threat of earthquakes to St. Louis region "real," says FEMA's Fugate

A woodcut depicting damage from the New Madrid series of earthquakes in 1811 and 1812. FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate says the threat of earthquakes on the New Madrid fault remain. (Via Wikimedia Commons)
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Some scientists say risks of another major earthquake from the New Madrid fault are minimal.

But FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate insists the threat to the St. Louis region is real.

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from St. Louis on the Air
8:48 am
Thu February 10, 2011

200 years later, what's shaking in the New Madrid Seismic Zone?

a portion of Geologic Investigations Map I-2812 (US Geological Survey) / Wheeler R.L.
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Tomorrow marks the St. Louis kickoff of the bicentennial events commemorating the earthquakes that struck the New Madrid Seismic Zone in 1811-12.  You’ve probably heard stories about those quakes: that church bells rang in Boston, that the Mississippi River ran backwards. Much of that, it turns out, is legend.  So what do we know about the New Madrid fault and the risk it poses to the modern Midwest?

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Haiti Earthquake Anniversary
11:05 pm
Tue January 11, 2011

Health and Nutrition in Haiti: One year after the quake

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Lora Iannotti studies public health and nutrition in Haiti, including that of children. (C. VanArtsdalen)
About 1.3 million Haitians are still living in temporary shelters. (L. Iannotti)
Fort St. Michel, an impoverished neighborhood on the periphery of Cap-Haitien, in northern Haiti. (C. VanArtsdalen)
Fort St. Michel, Cap-Haitien. (C. VanArtsdalen)
Tents in Leogane, about 35 km west of Port-au-Prince, October, 2010. (L. Iannotti)
Housing materials next to the tent camp in Leogane. (L. Iannotti)
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Wednesday marks the one-year anniversary of the Haitian earthquake.

The magnitude 7.0 tremor was the worst to hit the region in more than two centuries, killing over 200,000 people.

Today, more than a million Haitians are still living in tents and improvised shelters, without access to clean water and sanitation facilities.

Washington University professor Lora Iannotti was in Haiti on the day the earthquake struck. She has returned several times since then to continue her research in nutrition and public health.

Before going back to Haiti again last week, Iannotti spoke with St. Louis Public Radio’s Véronique LaCapra about health conditions in this struggling Caribbean nation.

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